Authorpreneur Dashboard – Tabitha Hergest
Think Yourself Lucky
Self-Help
Use the power of the Universe to attract that which is good, with science and spirituality as your guides.
Rough-Cut Book Bubbles from Think Yourself Lucky
A Funny Old Game
Football - that's proper football, not the American sport which adds rugby and suicide, according to actor Lee Majors - the original "funny old game", is a good metaphor for achievement. Why? Read on, dear reader, read on...
Act As If
Acting as if something is real, with conviction that it is so, will make it real. This is the way of the Universe, many times proven by those who have overcome what many had considered to be impossible odds. It may take courage, but fortune is not a friend of the timid.
Influences
All sorts of things touch our lives, sometimes in ever-so-subtle ways. Being aware of these things, alive, attentive, can give us the tools to make our own way in the world - not swept by the tides of life, but riding the surf.
Thirteen
Teens
Over 166 pages, Thirteen weaves a fascinating coming of age story around the Celtic legend of the thirteen treasures of Britain. Set in the early Iron Age fort of Caer Lludd (now Hampstead Heath) it chronicles the development of Rhiannon from gauche teenager to powerful warrior princess of the Catuvellauni tribe, through the tutelage of her mother, Druid Queen Rhiannon, and the majick of the Sacred Grove.
Book Bubbles from Thirteen
Getting Into It
The difference between knowledge, understanding and wisdom is often misunderstood - especially by the young who usually have more of the first but less of the other two. This excerpt explains the difference, and how one necessarily moves through to the latter with continued contemplation.
A Mother's Love
When a mother's wisdom perceives eventualities for her young'in that defy general public knowledge, of course the actions of the mother in mitigating the effects of those eventualities are going to appear strange, if not downright devious. It's called love. But then, when the mother is also The Queen, what's a subject to do?
Culture Shock!
Imagine being transported to a civilisation not of your knowledge, where different standards and understanding prevailed. How would you react?
The Thirteen Treasures of Britain
The Thirteen Treasures of Britain form part of the many myths and legends by which the Bards of ancient times helped to guide the actions of their people. It was wisely thought that, by reference to the Ancestors' actions, present situations could be successfully resolved.
Prologue
The prologue sets the scene for the thirteen chapters which follow. The young girl is not the Rhiannon who is the heroine of the book, but her mother, from whom the former gets, by dint of her familial ties, the same foreboding. Will her scion be as successful in her quest as her erstwhile mother? The ovates will tell...
